i hate my house

[{OF}Vmax]

wife and i decided to put tile flooring in the dinning room. So we bought all the stuff and i just got done tearing up all the carpet. so now i lay a level on the floor to see how much it has settled and i am not happy.

the freaking floor is one full inch lower at the walls. so now i have to try and figure out how to level it out. which will raise the level of the floor in the kitchen, living room, and computer room which will ad extra cost when i get to doing them floors.

[{OF}Erad]

Originally Posted by {OF}Vmax

wife and i decided to put tile flooring in the dinning room. So we bought all the stuff and i just got done tearing up all the carpet. so now i lay a level on the floor to see how much it has settled and i am not happy.

the freaking floor is one full inch lower at the walls. so now i have to try and figure out how to level it out. which will raise the level of the floor in the kitchen, living room, and computer room which will ad extra cost when i get to doing them floors.

Did you take the wheels off and support the sides on blocks after parking it? j/k!~

[{OF}Vmax]

thanks erad i needed that.

also you don't know how close you are back in the 80s they moved this house off the old guys farm to a lot in the city because the old man wanted to be closer to his children.

[MeTaL]

I have ceramic tile in my kitchen/dining room and will never ever have it again!! You are constantly fixing grout, sealing it, regrouting(I have not, I am lazy, it just cracks and flakes away!!)
Any little movement in your floor and it cracks...I hate it!

It LOVES to crack at the seam between floor and wall too, since that is a big place for movement!

My floors squeek alot, so you know it is moving all the time!! Prior owners stuck it in to sell the place, now I know better

[{OF}Vmax]

the major cause of that Metal is unlevel sub floor and the foundation is probably still settling. that is what i am trying to prevent. i hate carpet because of the 3 dogs we have are all long haired dogs and i have burned up 4 vacuums in 5 years, all were good quality vacuums also. plus i am allergic to dust and it holds tons of that.

here is a pic of the floor under the carpet.



its a crappy photo because of the flash, the floor is very dark and it is not wood

[MeTaL]

I hope my place is not still settling after 30 years...but ya never know I know, there simply is not enough bracing on the floor to use ceramic at my place. It was one of those quick jobs to make it look pretty for a buyer, and me being a first time buyer at the time, bit

I love watching that Holmes on Homes show, he went in and fixed a place with recracking ceramic floor tiles, and they literally went into the basement and put a tonne of more bracing so the floor just would not move.

[{OF}G_Man]

You have my sympathies V-Cow.

I live in a house that was built in 1923, on a full seven foot block basement, and they never put footings under the block. It sets right on the sand.
It doesn't move if I don't do any digging. Problem is, I screwed up one corner of the house when I first moved in doing some digging in the basement looking for the foundation before I realized there was none.

Best advice I can give you is to go with the flow. The only time you need to level or plumb anything in an old house is if it is a structual problem, otherwise you will drive yourself nuts.

[ClydeFrog]

If you used a backerboard wouldn't it be OK to have a slight crown to the floor? It's hard to tell from the pic but it seems even though the floor underneath may not be perfectly flat that would be fine because the thickness of the mortar would make up for any curvature. Unless you floor is really bad or the tiles are huge!

If you think the floor is done settling you could consciously put more mortar under the concrete board at the edges to try and raise them up. In any case it sounds like a pain in the butt V! I have a bathroom torn apart now but happily the floor is reasonably flat.

[ClydeFrog]

Woot! Doublepost

[1813]

self leveling lite weight concrete